Tantacrul: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius", recommended as the most entertaining serious critique of a software interface, and a crash course in UX mistakes.
- commentary recommended in 8 different months by 8 HN users, 2019–2026Recommended as the most entertaining serious critique of a software interface, and a crash course in UX mistakes.
- documentary recommended in 6 different months by 6 HN users, 2023–2026Repeatedly recommended as the definitive, well-made explanation of why attempts to reinvent music notation fail and what tradeoffs the current system makes.
- explainer recommended in 5 different months by 5 HN users, 2021–2024HN recommends it as an entertaining look at how hard notation fonts are to make, and it comes up in threads on music engraving and open source.
- commentary recommended in 4 different months by 4 HN users, 2019–2024Cited as a funny, informative teardown of bad interface design, and for the story that MuseScore hired him as head of design afterward.
- documentary recommended in 3 different months by 4 HN users, 2022–2026Recommended as a candid, in-depth look at hard UX redesign work and the limits of MIDI for notation.
- commentary recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2020–2024Recommended as an incisive look at the real potential and common misuse of data sonification, often brought up in threads on space sonifications.
- commentary recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2020–2021HN recommends it as a rigorous, entertaining example of interface design review and notes the author later became head of design at MuseScore.
- commentary recommended in 1 different month by 2 HN users, 2021–2022Recommended as a sharp piece of media criticism by a well-liked music YouTuber, and cited for the concept of reification.
- commentary recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2019–2023HN uses it as a go-to critique of bland corporate music and as a punchline whenever a slick corporate video appears.
- commentary recommended in 1 different month by 3 HN users, 2021–2023HN recommends it during the Muse Group acquisition controversy for its funny, pragmatic take on usability and open source stewardship.
Questions
Which Tantacrul video does Hacker News recommend most?
Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius: recommended in 8 different months by 8 HN users between 2019 and 2026.
Is this every Tantacrul video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.